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  • wild mustard
    [W3 different sp.] n. a plant: 1835 Cleome pentaphylla. Wild mustard ... this plant, cooked like spinach, is much eaten
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  • wild mulberry
    n. a plant, Morinda royoc: 1910 (Northrop 186). cf. LIMBURGER VINE (Exuma) 
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  • wild manilla
    [from its resemblance to MANELLA] n. a plant (Agave sp?). (Black)
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  • wild mammee
    [Car. different sp.; cf. MAMEE] n. a tree: 1905 Lucuma multiflora ... wild mammee (Shattuck 220). 1956 Clusia rosea (Higgs
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  • wild madeira
    [from its resemblance to MADEIRA WOOD] n. a tree, Alvaradoa amorphoides: 1977 (Patterson 107). + TASSEL PLANT (Black)
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  • wild licorice, wild liquorice
    [DJE idem] n. a vine, Abrus precatorius, which smells of licorice: 1889 (Gardner 377). = BEAD VINE, BLACK-EYED SUSAN, MACKABEE, RED-EYE SUZY (Inagua, Exuma)
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  • wild hibiscus
    [from its showy pink blossoms] n. a shrub, Phymosia abutiloides: 1977 (Patterson 15). (Black)
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  • wild guava
    [W Car. (Psidium guayabita); from the guava-like fruit] n. a shrub: 1905 Tetrazygia bicolor (Shattuck 207). 1920 Anamomis baha­mensis (Britton 306). 1977 Catesbaea
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  • wild grape
    n. 1. [DAE, any grapevine ( Vitis sp.)] a vine, Vitis munsoniana, bearing black berries: 1920 (Britton 259). (Black) 2. [DJE, any of
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  • wild ginger
    [Car. idem (Costus spicatus) DJE] n. a plant: 1889 Wild ginger. . .Costus sp? (Gardner 353). Purple orchid tubers (Bletia purpurea)
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